More new stuff I can do

First of all I will tell you all about my visit from Auntie Jenn last week. She (like Mama) is currently not working (stupid economy), so she decided to come visit me for five whole days. The day that she was coming in on the train I went to a playdate with some other kids my Mama met through some group. None of us are crawling yet, so we didn't do very much together, but our Mama's got to spend time talking to each other. Then Mama and I went to pick up Auntie Jenn way down in Seattle. We did lots of stuff together over the next few days and I smiled at Auntie Jenn every time I saw her. I really like her. We went to wander around stores a lot while she was here and it looked like her and Mama had a great time. I even got to try on her glasses and high heel shoes. I was pretty fancy. On Halloween we waited patiently for Daddy to get home from work, then we went out to show off my pea pod costume. We only got to go to one house because I was really crabby and all of Mama and Daddy's friends were out doing fun grown-up stuff. I had fun though. I saw lots of other kids out in their costumes and can't wait until next year when I can walk around in my costume and wear something really cool like a zombie princess costume.

After Halloween Auntie Jenn had to leave and I was really sad that she couldn't stay here forever. I still look for her every morning when Mama and Daddy come in to wake me up. Speaking of waking up, I am really proud of myself that I have been sleeping all night (11 hours!) by myself in my crib with only fussing once (but when Mama or Daddy comes in to show me they're still here I go right back to sleep). I've also been taking all of my naps in my crib just like a big girl. Aren't you all proud of me? I've also been working more on learning how to crawl. So far I can get up on my hands and knees, then move my legs forward like real crawling, but then I fall on my face and do it again. I move forward like this, but it's really slow. I'm much faster at crawling backwards. Plus I can wedge myself under various things and it makes Mama laugh. I've started trying to pull myself up to stand on my legs, but I'm not very good at it yet. This morning at story time Mama helped me put my legs in the right place so I could pull myself up on the basket of books. It's really low though so I just stood there with my butt stuck up in the air and Mama supporting me so I didn't fall. It was really exciting, but Mama says I cheated because she helped me so much. I'll do it on my own soon I'm sure. I think I might just skip right over crawling and go straight to walking and/or running. I still don't have any teeth, but they still hurt my mouth. Mama and Daddy are starting to think that I have invisible teeth, but I think they're crazy. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Next week I'm going to go down to Grandma and Grandpa's to stay for two days to see my cousin Henry and my friend Ruby June. It should prove to be quite exciting.